Solve It! Basic Portable Mac Problems

Restarting a Portable Mac After a System Error

Symptoms:

A system crash, system freeze, or other system error has occurred that requires that you restart your PowerBook. You are having trouble figuring out how to do this.

Causes:

Most causes are the same for PowerBooks as for any other Macintosh. This section focuses specifically on those techniques and problems that are unique to PowerBooks, especially solving the basic problem of just restarting the PowerBook. Some of these techniques were briefly mentioned in Chapter 4, but they are covered in more detail here.